Features

Identification Tools

The eMonocot portal offers different tools and functionalities to help you to identify plants.
Use the illustrated, multi-access identification keys to identify specimens to family or species level.
You can select characters in any order (unlike traditional identification keys).
Browse for images and view them in a grid or an image gallery.

Key to Monocot Families

Use this interactive key to identify a plant to family level. Start with this key, If you have no idea what the plant you want to identify is. Select features of your plant from the list to start narrowing down the list of families that match these features. Learn more watching the video tutorial about the key player.

Search for Keys

Once you have established what family the plant you want to identify belongs to, you can then search for other available keys that will help you identify your plant to genus or species level. Filter the search results by the key category to see a complete list of available keys. Learn more watching the video tutorial about the search.

Browse Images

Compare the plant you wish to identify with the images of taxa available in eMonocot. You can use the keyword and faceted search to narrow down your results. Selecting the grid view will display the images available as thumbnails. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image you can then click on the play button to view the images in a slide show. You can also click on the title of the image to navigate to the image page where you can view more detailed information about the image. Learn more watching the video tutorial about the search.

Classify

The taxa presented in eMonocot are
organised according to a dynamic, consensus classification. This
classification is based on the opinions of the taxonomic
communities contributing to eMonocot and is updated regularly as
new information becomes available.

Dynamic, Consensus Taxonomic Classification

Browse the eMonocot classification in a tree view, you can expand and collapse the tree. You can also use this tree view to navigate to taxon pages within eMonocot. Clicking on the taxon name within the tree will take you to its taxon page.

Phylogeny Browser

Explore monocot evolutionary relationships by browsing the phylogenetic trees available in eMonocot. Switch between rectangular and circular phylograms.

Search Tools

Search across all taxon pages, images and
keys using keywords including wildcards and fuzzy queries.
Restrict results by taxonomic group, status, rank, geographical
area, conservation status and other properties.

Perform aggregate queries across the
whole database to identify the number of species in a particular
family or found in a particular area, or to display the different
life-form or habitat types of your chosen taxa.

Powerful Search and Faceting

Search across all taxon pages, images and keys using keywords including wildcards and fuzzy queries. Restrict results by taxonomic group, status, rank, geographical area, conservation status. habitat and life form. Learn more watching the video tutorial about the search.

Ad-hoc analysis and visualization

Visualise the content in eMonocot using tables, bar charts and pie charts. Find out the proportion of taxa that match your selected criteria. For example you can find out the number of taxa in the Liliaceae family with descriptions or the number of taxa in each family for a particular geographical area. Learn more watching the video tutorial about this tool.